Why don’t companies like Adobe have RSS feeds for their press releases? They don’t have that many announcements in a month that it would becoming annoying. I’d subscribe. I’d subscribe to other companies as well — especially ones that have products that interest me but might not have much mention in the blogs I read.

(If anyone knows of an RSS feed for Adobe press releases, leave a comment please! I couldn’t find one.)

Interview Series

Convert a byte array to a hex string without using any pre-built functions. The byte array’s length is provided as a parameter to the function (if needed…, some languages won’t require this).

Remember, accuracy is important, but so is performance and memory utilization.

I’m waiting for version 2, but many many people having been patiently waiting for the Kindle to become available again. It’s all yours. Send your feedback to Jeff so that version 2 is exactly what I need (well, has the features I need in the form factor I’d like). :)

If you recently upgraded to the latest version of BootCamp and audio is no longer working, you can try this:

1. Start the Device Manager
2. Expand Sound, video and game controllers
3. Right click on Realtek High Definition Audio
4. Select Properties.
5. Click the Driver tab.
6. Select Roll Back Driver.

This restored audio on my MacBook Pro. I couldn’t find any other fixes that worked — and this is simple.

My backback I carry daily and on trips was extra heavy this morning. I was doing a bit of packing for an upcoming trip (trying to see what would fit, what wouldn’t) — and after filling my backpack with the necessities and hefting it onto my back, my wife turned to me and pointed out how heavy the backpack looked.

I emptied the various nooks and crannies to see what I was actually carrying. I’ll spare you a photograph of the pandemonium that is my backpack, but I will say that if your bag contains things like mine (did), it might be time to lighten the load:

1. Network crossover adapter. I don’t know if I’ve ever used this.
2. USB extension cable. Neat, but again, I cannot think of a time I’ve needed to extend a USB cable while on a trip. I should leave this in my den/office where it might actually come in handy!
3. USB male-female inverter thingy. You’d think there had been a USB emergency at some point for me to carry this.
4. Three mini-to-full sized USB cables. I only have 2 USB ports on my laptop. It’s rare that I need more than one thing plugged in at a time while traveling.
5. Wireless mouse & wired mouse. I’ll stick to the wired mouse — it’s for travel anyway. I leave a wireless mouse at work.
6. Over $4 in change. Yeah, just in case someone needs change or there’s a vending machine that won’t take bills or a credit card.
7. Airport Express. When hotels didn’t have wireless, this was useful. Now, it’s just dead weight.
8. A unopened box of sleeping pills. This was for a trip a year and a half ago. But I’ve been carrying them around just in case I’m too wide awake….
9. Various ailments related to digestion… (I had a bad case of food poisoning at the last PDC which inspired me to always have these on hand).
10. 2 USB memory sticks. One 8GB and the other 2GB.
11. 6 cough drops. Hack, hack, hack.
12. Bandages. Maybe I’ll get a nasty cut from an extra usb cable …
13. Dental floss. (Just a small package — I can’t decide if this should stay or go).

What’s the silliest thing you carry around that you don’t need? I’m not a pack-rat at all … so I find it funny that I’ve been carrying around all of this unnecessary weight for so long!